Assignment #5

The Promise and Peril of Robots in Film, TV and Real Life: Friends or 

Foes?

    I believe that robots cant be are friends because we made them. The reason people don't put robots as a companion is due to their lack of intelligence. Robots don't have emotions or a conscience. With out that how can robots think like us.  They might know more then people but they do not know what to do with the knowledge they have. I believe that there is going to be a technical glitch which caused all robots and machines To malfunction and might as well hurt us. this makes robots more superior than us humans. the robots in a machine has been doing many tasks that we can't do and because of that people are scared.I believe that the robots and machines are only to be used as a tool, so that people used then to make their lives easier. we should not call them friends or anything that is close to us because they are not alive, they are more of a program then living flesh. Yes we might program them to be friendly and useful but they are still man made which means there are errors. Do you believe in robots watching over your kids. In the the movie "I,Robot" they gave the robots feels and it didn't go well. the robot could not control its emotions. The robots try to evolve so that human race can be taking over. In Ray Kurzweil's book, The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology it predicts that robots will surpass Intelligence. And Phil K. Dick: Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, Philip presents a future where robots are just like humans. To point where they can not be told a part. In the movie "terminator" when we build a robot to protect us, a virus breaks out and ends up attack us. they made the robots look like humans. Getting killed by are own creation is not that surprising. obama air drowns have had issue killing innocent people. if it hard to trust humans how are we going to trust robots.